Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; some wear to the edges of the boards and a library reference at head of spine, an attractive copy in contemporary quarter calf.A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to... More

Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; in contemporary marbled sheep preserved in folding cloth case.A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to Australia, not recorded by most of the commentators on the genre. In... More

Octavo, folding frontispiece map with outline colouring, xl, 220 pp., (including directory and advertisements), with a folding table of goods and prices bound in; in plain brown cloth (if not original certainly of the period).A... More

Two volumes, octavo; many photographic illustrations, eight maps at the end (three folding and one double-page); original pictorial cloth, in very fine condition.First edition in the original Norwegian; very scarce. a superb copy, with the pictorial bindings... More

Quarto, folding map; black half roan, with the bookplate of Henry White.An essential First Fleet book, widely considered the best guide to the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales: 'an extremely interesting work and an... More

Octavo, with two folding handcoloured maps; bound in contemporary marbled boards (rebacked retaining original crimson label) from the Westport House library with Browne family armorial bookplate.Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New... More

Octavo, with two folding maps, finely hand coloured in outline, modern half calf, marbled boards.First edition. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New South Wales, this sometimes neglected publication was the most... More

Hand-coloured engraving, 240 x 320 mm (plate size). small paper repair at bottom margin else very good condition.A famous portrait of a man and woman of the Caroline islands, depicted in high neoclassical style. This engraving is derived... More

The "Spanish Hakluyt" Herrera's annotated copy of Argensola's classic work on the western Pacific

Small folio, pp. [12], 407 [i.e. 411]; eighteenth-century stiff parchment.A remarkable and very important association copy of this great book, by a figure whose circle of literary colleagues included both Cervantes... More

An unexplained proto-Australia: a single southern continent for the first time

Copper-engraved double-hemisphere world map, 335 x 545 mm.; mounted.A very rare sixteenth century map depicting an island roughly in the position of Australia. Montanus shows for the first time on a world map a.... More

Auckland: 2 April, 1856. Original parchment document measuring 337x372mm., with a plan of the property in coloured ink, blind stamp paper seal, etcetera; fine and folded to docket size.Original parchment land grant to John College, Auckland. The grant specifies that the college is entitled to 'the No. 2 Division... More

Brisbane: Government Printer, 1984. Large folio, original decorated cloth, slipcase, limitation slip, fine copy.High-quality limited facsimile edition. The original edition was published 1885 to commemorate the raising of the British Flag in Port Moresby in 1884. Admired as much for its technical virtuosity as its beauty, this work has... More

Large square folio, with a folding map, three coloured lithograph plates, 33 original silver albumen photographs (283 x 212 mm) mounted on card with printed captions and borders, and two superb panoramas, one of them double-page (240 x.... More

Engraved Certificate, 265 x 366mm, fine.Decorative document certifying that Babbage diligently attended the lectures in the Senior Mathematical Class during the session of 1834-35, and was presented with the First Certificate.More

Engraved Certificate, 265 x 366mm.Decorative document certifying that Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815-1878; Charles Babbage's son) diligently attended the lectures in the Second Class of Mathematics (1st Division) during the session of 1833-34; as well as a First... More

Printed share certificate on vellum; 22.5 x 105 mm, completed in manuscript in ink.For the first thirty years of the colony of NSW, there was no organised and regulated banking system, rather a.... More

Octavo, large map and chart and eleven plates (most folding), 13 plates in total; contemporary quarter roan and marbled boards.First German edition, preceded only by the very rare Swedish edition of 1777, and followed by London and Paris... More

Two volumes, octavo; both works completely uncut in original boards, later paper title-labels; handsome matching slipcases.A beautiful uncut set of Barrington's famous pair of works, rare in this condition. The History, with its seventeen full-page plates, is the first book... More

Octavo, portrait frontispiece and nine handcoloured plates, folding map (laid down); contemporary half calf.The second edition (first published 1803) of this substantial account of the voyage to New South Wales via the Cape of Good Hope, with incidents partly derived... More

Octavo in fours, with wood-engraved frontispiece.Very rare: the second issue of this scarce pamphlet celebrating the misdeeds and famous speeches from the dock of Australia's most famous convict. This is one of the earliest and most... More

Octavo, laid paper uncut, with the 6 pp. 'Official Register of the Crimes, Trials and Executions'; in later half calf, spine banded and gilt, crimson morocco label.A scarce Barrington title. This so-called Sequel drew most of its content from... More